Averil Cameron

Dame Averil Millicent Cameron DBE FSA FRHistS FBA (née Sutton; born 1940), often cited as A. M. Cameron, is a British historian. She was Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History at the University of Oxford,[1] and the Warden of Keble College, Oxford, between 1994[2] and 2010.[3]

Dame Averil Cameron

DBE FSA FRHistS FBA
Born
Averil Millicent Sutton

(1940-02-08) 8 February 1940
Leek, Staffordshire, England
Other namesA. M. Cameron
Spouse(s)Alan Cameron
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisThe Histories of Agathias (1966)
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-discipline
Institutions

Early life

Cameron was born on 8 February 1940 in Leek, Staffordshire, the only child of working-class parents Tom Roy Sutton and Millicent (née Drew) Sutton.[4][5] She read literae humaniores at Somerville College, Oxford, and was married, from 1962 to 1980,[6] to Alan Cameron, with whom she has a son and a daughter.[2][7]

Career

From 1978 to 1994 Cameron taught at King's College, London, serving as Professor of Ancient History (1978–1989), Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (1989–1994),[2] and Founding Director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies.

In 1994 she was elected Warden of Keble College, Oxford, where she served as Chair of the Conference of Colleges and as Pro-Vice-Chancellor, chair of committees relating to the Sackler Library, to the St Cross Building, to Honorary Degrees, Select Preachers, to the Bampton Lectures and to the Wainwright Fund, and was a member of the committee on conflict of interest.

Cameron was Editor of the Journal of Roman Studies from 1985-90 and has served as Chair of a number of academic institutions, including the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research and the Institute of Classical Studies Advisory Council, and chaired the project on the Prosopography of the Byzantine World at King's College London.[1]

She was vice-chair and then chair of the Cathedrals Fabric Commission for England and chaired the Review of the Royal Peculiars (1999, Report published 2001).

Cameron has also acted as the President of academic societies including: the Ecclesiastical History Society (2005–2006),[8] the Council for British Research in the Levant,[9] and the International Federation of Associations of Classical Studies (2009–2014).[9] In 2018 she became President of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (2018–2023).[10]

Honours

Cameron holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Warwick,[11] St Andrews,[12] Aberdeen, Lund, London, and Queen's University Belfast, as well as a DLitt. from Oxford. She became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1999 and a Dame Commander (DBE) in 2006.

Cameron is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, the British Academy, the Ecclesiastical History Society,[13] the Institute of Classical Studies, London[14] King's College, London, and the Royal Historical Society.

In 2007 a Festschrift edited by Hagit Amirav and Bas ter Haar Romeny, From Rome to Constantinople: Studies in Honour of Averil Cameron (Leuven: Peeters), was published in Cameron's honour.

In 2020, Cameron was awarded the British Academy Kenyon Medal for her lifetime contribution to Byzantine Studies.[15][16] The medal was awarded for the first time in 1957. Cameron is the second woman to receive the award, after Joyce Reynolds (2017).[17]

Work

Cameron's early articles explored early Byzantine and medieval writers including Agathias, Corippus, Procopius, and Gregory of Tours from literary and historical perspectives. Her early monographs, Agathias (1970) and Procopius and the Sixth Century (1985) were accompanied by a number of influential edited collections, including Images of Women in Antiquity, edited jointly with Amélie Kuhrt (1983), and History as Text (1989). With Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire: The Development of Christian Discourse (1990), originating as the Sather Classical Lectures at Berkeley, Cameron sparked a scholarly conversation about 'the power of discourse in society' in later antiquity, seeking to understand 'how Christianity was able to develop a "totalizing discourse"' (the phrase itself is borrowed from the work of Michel Foucault).[18]

Along with Peter Brown, Cameron was a pioneer of the field of late antiquity, and her mature scholarship has included substantial surveys such as The Later Roman Empire, AD 284-430 (1993) and significant editorial commissions, including joint editorship of volumes 12, 13, and 14 of the Cambridge Ancient History (second edition). She has also written on late antiquity and the emergence of Islam, having been a co-founder of the series Studies on Late Antiquity and Early Islam, and recently published a number of influential studies opening up the subject of literary, philosophical and theological dialogues and debates in Byzantium from the early Christian period to the twelfth century, Dialoguing in Late Antiquity (2014), Arguing it Out (2016) and an edited volume with Niels Gaul (2017). Her short book, Byzantine Matters (2014) and essays including 'The absence of Byzantium' (2008) have given rise to lively debate about the methodology of Byzantine studies.

Selected bibliography

Books and edited volumes
  • Agathias (Clarendon Press 1970), ISBN 0-19-814352-4
  • Images of Women in Antiquity, ed. with Amélie Kuhrt (London: Duckworth, 1983, rev. 1993),
  • Procopius and the Sixth Century (Duckworth 1985), ISBN 0-7156-1510-7
  • History as Text, ed. (London: Duckworth, 1989)
  • The Greek Renaissance in the Roman Empire, ed. with Susan Walker (London: 1989)
  • Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire: The Development of Christian Discourse (University of California Press 1991), ISBN 0-520-07160-3
  • The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East I: Problems in the Literary Sources, ed. with Lawrence I. Conrad (Princeton: Darwin Press, 1992)
  • The Later Roman Empire, AD 284-430 (Fontana 1993), ISBN 0-00-686172-5
  • The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East II: Land Use and Settlement Patterns, ed. with G.R.D. King (Princeton: Darwin Press, 1994)
  • The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East III: States, Resources and Armies, ed. (Princeton: Darwin Press, 1995)
  • The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, AD 395-600 (London: Routledge 1993), ISBN 0-415-01420-4; rev/ and expanded ed. (London: Routledge, 2011)
  • Images of Women in Antiquity (rev. ed., Routledge 1993), ISBN 0-415-09095-4 (ed. with Amélie Kuhrt)
  • Eusebius, Life of Constantine, trans. and commentary, with S.G. Hall (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999)
  • Fifty Years of Prosopography, ed., Publications of the British Academy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)
  • The Cambridge Ancient History
    • Vol. 12: The Crisis of Empire, AD 193-337 (Cambridge University Press 2005), ISBN 0-521-30199-8 (2nd ed., ed. with Alan K. Bowman and Peter Garnsey)
    • Vol. 13: The Late Empire, AD 337-425 (Cambridge University Press 1998), ISBN 0-521-30200-5 (ed. with Peter Garnsey)
    • Vol. 14: Late Antiquity: Empires and Successors, AD 425-600 (Cambridge University Press 2000), ISBN 0-521-32591-9 (ed. with Bryan Ward-Perkins and Michael Whitby)
  • Doctrine and Debate in Eastern Christianity, 300-1500, ed. with Robert Hoyland (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011)
  • Late Antiquity on the Eve of Islam, The Formation of the Islamic World, ed. (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013)
  • The Byzantines (Oxford: Blackwell 2006), ISBN 0-631-20262-5
  • Dialoguing in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, MA:: Ashgate Harvard University Press, 2014)
  • Byzantine Matters (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014)
  • Arguing it Out: Discussion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium (Central European University Press, 2016)
  • Dialogues and Debates from Late Antiquity to Late Byzantium, ed. with Niels Gaul (Milton Park: Routledge, 2017)
  • Byzantine Christianity (London: SPCK, 2017).

Journal articles

Recent articles include 'The Cost of Orthodoxy', Church History and Religious Culture, vol. 93 (2013) 339-61, and 'Early Christianity and the discourse of female desire', repr. from Women in Ancient Societies, ed. L. J. Archer, S. Fischler and M. Wyke (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994), 152-68, with an afterword, in The Religious History of the Roman Empire. Pagans, Jews and Christians, ed. J.A. North and S.R.F. Price (Oxford readings in Classical Studies, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 505-30, and 'Byzantium and the limits of Orthodoxy', Raleigh Lecture in History, (Proceedings of the British Academy 154 2008), 139-52.

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References
  1. Donald MacLeod and Polly Curtis (31 December 2005). "Voices of education win New Year honours". Guardian. Retrieved 18 December 2010.
  2. Averil Cameron (28 October 1994). "Past Masters". The Times. Retrieved 18 December 2010.
  3. "Sir Jonathan Phillips elected new Warden of Keble". Keble College, Oxford. 11 October 2009. Archived from the original on 14 November 2010. Retrieved 19 December 2010.
  4. The International Who's Who of Women 2002, third edition, ed. Elizabeth Sleeman, Europa Publications, p. 88
  5. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Memoirs_17-13-Cameron.pdf
  6. The International Who's Who of Women 2002, third edition, ed. Elizabeth Sleeman, Europa Publications, p. 88
  7. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Memoirs_17-13-Cameron.pdf
  8. "Past Presidents of the EHS | Ecclesiastical History Society". www.history.ac.uk. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
  9. "Averil Cameron - Classics". www.classics.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
  10. "The Byzantine Society > About the Byzantine Society > Society Officers". 26 June 2018. Archived from the original on 26 June 2018. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  11. Lynne Williams (2 August 1996). "Honorary Degrees". Times. Retrieved 19 December 2010.
  12. edited by Harriet Swain and researched by Lynne Williams (25 September 1998). "Glittering prizes". Times. Retrieved 19 December 2010.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  13. "Fellows | Ecclesiastical History Society". www.history.ac.uk. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
  14. "Fellows: Institute of Classical Studies". Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  15. "Kenyon Medal". The British Academy. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  16. "British Academy's prizes and medals celebrate achievements in humanities and social sciences". The British Academy. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  17. "Kenyon Medal". The British Academy. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  18. Markus, R. A. (1992). "Review of Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire. The Development of Christian Discourse. (Sather Classical Lectures, 55.)". The Journal of Theological Studies. 43 (2): 702, 701–705. doi:10.2307/23963957. JSTOR 23963957.
Academic offices
Preceded by
George Barclay Richardson		 Warden of Keble College, Oxford
1994–2010		 Succeeded by
Sir Jonathan Phillips
Professional and academic associations
Preceded by
Eamon Duffy		 President of the Ecclesiastical History Society
2005–2006		 Succeeded by
David W. Bebbington
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